No trick or treating, but a bunch of eye candies and mind-boggling ideas! Halloween in Japan is now a thing—a huge thing. Watch pumpkins and ghosts fill up the stores and fully-dressed up crowds congest Shibuya in Tokyo on the week of Halloween. Just how is it celebrated in Japan? We think it’s fair to say you can expect cuteness, weirdness and over-the-topness as you’d expect from anything creative in Japan. Perhaps some of these are ways you prefer to party for Halloween, too!

2. Halloween Pepsi, Conan and Disneyland

Of course it’s the big corporations that’s been planting the seeds for jack-o-lanterns and Halloween parties in Japan. Thanks to them, the Halloween spirit is everywhere, and you can see beloved anime characters in Halloween costumes!

5. Putting a costume on everything

Pusheen in unicorn costumes, shibas in cat costumes... you know everything cute from Japan gets to dress up in costumes pretending to be something else. It’s not a Japanese costume, but it’s very Japanese!

6. Sweet, sincere holiday greetings with ghosts and witches

Remember Miyazaki’s Kiki's Delivery Service? Ghouls and witches are supposed to be sweet and friendly and would greet you on a broom! At least, it’s often so in Japanese stationery which really are sincere season’s greetings.

7. Halloween bento, Halloween phone case, Halloween tableware

Seasonality is deeply ingrained in Japanese aesthetics. Cherry blossoms in spring, hydrangea in summer, maple leaves in autumn—Changing our everyday objects to fit with the season is a way to fully appreciate both nature and our mundane human lives. Well, seasonal seems to include the Halloween season now!

Such a ghastly interpretation of everyday objects like the phone case really make our hair stands on ends!

Like many other things in Japan, Halloween has taken on its own life, and we like it! What do you think?

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